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Physical Review Letters · 2012 · American Physical Society
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Abstract
Based on the full BABAR data sample, we report improved measurements of the ratios $\mathcal{R}({D}^{(*)})=\mathcal{B}(\overline{B}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{D}^{(*)}{\ensuremath{\tau}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{\ensuremath{\tau}})/\mathcal{B}(\overline{B}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{D}^{(*)}{\ensuremath{\ell}}_{\ensuremath{\ell}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{\ensuremath{\ell}})$, where $\ensuremath{\ell}$ is either $e$ or $\ensuremath{\mu}$. These ratios are sensitive to new physics contributions in the form of a charged Higgs boson. We measure $\mathcal{R}(D)=0.440\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.058\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.042$ and $\mathcal{R}({D}^{*})=0.332\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.024\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.018$, which exceed the standard model expectations by $2.0\ensuremath{\sigma}$ and $2.7\ensuremath{\sigma}$, respectively. Taken together, our results disagree with these expectations at the $3.4\ensuremath{\sigma}$ level. This excess cannot be explained by a charged Higgs boson in the type II two-Higgs-doublet model.